Sage TV 6.24 Beta

I can’t believe I overlooked a new beta at Sage. My apologies, I guess we need to get another contest going for user submitted news :). At any rate, Sage has a new beta out. The UI is a bit more polished then before and they even make it easier for people to develop themed graphics for the program. It takes studio out of the equation :). Click the read more button for a full list 

Since the beta v6.2 manual won’t be out for quite some time, below are some of the new features in the v6.2 UI:

1. As detailed earlier, there is now support for themed graphics sets, with many of the default graphics updated.
2. A new search menu is available at: Schedule Recordings
   -> Search. This new search menu can be used to search for TV content
   (recorded or not), Videos (recordings and imported videos), Music, or
   Photos. The Search command jumps to this screen and all other
   TV/Video/Music search menus have been eliminated. (There was no photo
   search previously)

   The search is delayed until after input stops for a short period of
   time, so once you stop entering text, the search results will be
   updated shortly afterwards.

   This search screen also works with the hidden One Touch Numeric Text Input search. Turn on the hidden extras
   for the ability to quickly search using your number pad w/o having to
   press the same number repeatedly to choose the letter you want.

   Photo Search notes: select any photo to view it. Use Play to turn the
   photo viewer into a slideshow of just those pictures that were found.
   (In the future, there will be a button you can select to view a
   slideshow of all those pictures w/o having to also use Play.)

3. Detailed Setup -> Customize -> Channel Entry Options
   has options used when entering numbers to change channels: a) whether
   to autoaccept channel changes after a timeout period, and b) set the
   max number of channel digits to be automatic or a manual setting.
4. Mouse clicks in scroll bars now immediately jump to that
   part of the list, rather than simply perform a page up/down. You can
   click on a point in the scroll bar area, or click & drag.
5. The Online Videos system has been overhauled to get its
   layout from properties files, display a category selection bar above
   the search results, and cached the search results for 5 minutes so you
   can switch between various categories w/o having to redownload the list
   of videos you had just viewed.
6. Detailed Setup -> Video/Audio has an MPEG4 Playback
   option, where you can choose to use the SageTV Player or a DirectShow
   codec.
7. The Video Detail screen now displays extended info for
   imported videos, similar to the info that can be shown for a recording.
   (If that metadata is available.)
8. If the Pause command is repeatedly used during playback, the OSD won’t be displayed if it is currently off.
9. When using Media Center -> Browse Media Files, the
   last-used paths are remembered & browsing will start with those
   paths during the next browse session.
10. Video & Music folder browsers: the Play command can
    now be used to play all files in the folder and its subfolders, or add
    them to a playlist. (Previously, it only acted on files in that folder
    and ignored the ones in subfolders.)
11. Music browser’s Playlist view: Add a pseudo-playlist
    called "Play All Songs". You can randomly play all the songs in your
    collection, play all songs in order starting with the first song, or
    play all songs in order starting with a random album.
12. SageTV V6.2.4 Release Notes 6/27/2007 BETA

    Core Updates
    1. Various performance optimizations
    2. Disabled use of pseudoclient local playback optimization since we don’t know it’ll have rights to access to paths for sure
    3. Added property repair_mismatched_media_filenames which if set to
    true will cause SageTV to rename any TV recordings that don’t have
    their filename matching their Database IDs. This will allow a proper
    recovery of all the files if they have their paths changed.
    4. Fixed synchronization bug in the image caching system
    5. Run the FileExport plugins after transcoding jobs are complete
    6. Fixed bug where Tables that didn’t page sometimes erronously calculated the preferred size of internal components
    7. Fixed various QAM/DVB tuning issues
    8. Fix EPG buffer overflow in DVB-C
    9. FIX: subtitle stream leaking into audio streams screws up PTS

    Windows Updates
    1. Fix Cinergy 2400 tuner broken code by adding HD HomeRun BDA support
    2. Fixed bug in D3D where we’d switch to managed memory if we tried to load a corrupted image file
    3. Fixed bug where on some systems the app would leak threads/handles and consume 100% of the CPU after awhile
    4. Fixed bug on Vista where you were required to turn off DEP (Data Execution Prevention)

    Placeshifter Updates
    1. Added detection of Overlay failures on Windows and added popups for messages to help correct the problem.

    Macintosh Updates (these were in the 6.2.3 release)
    1. Fixed JOGL crashes due to invalid threading
    2. Added autotuning support

    Studio Updates
    1. Updated GetMediaTitle API call so that it returns the title w/out the relative path for music, videos, DVDs & pictures
    2. Added ClearMenuCache API call to Utility API

    STV Updates
    1. Music/Video Playlist Details menus: when selecting a playlist
    segment, extended ability to start playback of the playlist at that
    point, or if in shuffle mode, then start random playback.
    2. Updated marker icons for Archived, First Run, HDTV, and Watched shows.
    3. Online Videos list: fixed adding of "Previous" option when there were not enough items to first add "More".
    4. The System Info screen now includes the Max JVM Heap Size, in addition to the Used & Total amounts.
    5. Changed seeker/default_linux_recording_paths and seeker/default_linux_import_paths to be server based properties.
    6. Changed GetMediaTitle() calls to GetShowTitle() when the relative path of an imported video/photo is needed.
    7. Fixed music search by title where it could search the album name instead, then present a list of song titles.
    8. Updated top info area to handle showing info for an imported video.
    9. Updated the SearchResults menu to be able to show a mixed list of imported videos + recordings.
    10. Added new search menu that has the ability to search all types of media, searching by various selectable categories.
    11. Added SearchIcon.png as the icon for the Search option in media browsers.